As I mentioned a few weeks back, my wife and I are trying to adopt a child from Russia. The prospective trip I mentioned then fell through, but we just got another call from the adoption agency. We may be traveling in a couple of weeks, and posting is likely to be light while we're getting ready to go.
None of this is certain, as we learned the week before last. But we've got photos (damn, that kid is cute!) and a medical report (confusing, but that's the norm in Russian adoptions) this time, which is more than we had the last time.
If this goes through, we'd be traveling to Tomsk, which is the other side of Kazakhstan, and just this side of Mongolia.
Showing posts with label Adoption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adoption. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Laughing With Broder, For Once
At about the 1:40 mark. Credit where credit's due, dammit.
Oh yeah: the Russia trip has fallen through, for reasons that will likely remain unclear. Stuff like this happens when you're trying to adopt. So while we're back to where we were two weeks ago - waiting for a referral - we've gotten our packing lists together, gotten our vaccinations, taken care of a number of things that will stand us in good stead when we finally do travel.
Anyway, blogging may return to something like normal for awhile.
Oh yeah: the Russia trip has fallen through, for reasons that will likely remain unclear. Stuff like this happens when you're trying to adopt. So while we're back to where we were two weeks ago - waiting for a referral - we've gotten our packing lists together, gotten our vaccinations, taken care of a number of things that will stand us in good stead when we finally do travel.
Anyway, blogging may return to something like normal for awhile.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Light Posting Ahead. Then Probably a Short Hiatus.
Life events are intervening in your blogger's life. My wife and I may shortly be headed over to Russia, to keep John McCain and Dick Cheney from re-starting the Cold War for the first of two trips to adopt a child. (First trip, you meet the child; second trip, you complete the adoption and bring him home.)
This has of course been planned for awhile - we've had a home study done, we've completed a dossier (which is basically a mammoth pile of paperwork to satisfy the assorted governments and agencies), gotten our fingerprints taken way more times than should have been necessary, and waited. Then you get a call from the adoption agency, and you get ready to drop everything.
So expect light posting for the next couple of weeks, and then none at all while we travel.
This has of course been planned for awhile - we've had a home study done, we've completed a dossier (which is basically a mammoth pile of paperwork to satisfy the assorted governments and agencies), gotten our fingerprints taken way more times than should have been necessary, and waited. Then you get a call from the adoption agency, and you get ready to drop everything.
So expect light posting for the next couple of weeks, and then none at all while we travel.
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